As a contractor, you get used to interviews. I had one today and got asked quite a deep mathematical cryptography question, for which they wanted the answer then and there. Now I wouldn't mind except one of the interviewers sat there in front of me trying to work it out on his calculator!
I'm assuming one of the other interviewer's (who set the question) worked the answer out previously, so this is a fine example of 'I know more than you' syndrome.
This reminds me of an interview a long way back when the 'technical' interviewer explained this long, complicated, technical scenario and then asked me whether it would work. When I said yes, he told me it wouldn't because of a default-setting on a check box buried deep within the admin console of one of the components of said scenario.
Is it just me who can't be bothered with all this in an interview?
I'm assuming one of the other interviewer's (who set the question) worked the answer out previously, so this is a fine example of 'I know more than you' syndrome.
This reminds me of an interview a long way back when the 'technical' interviewer explained this long, complicated, technical scenario and then asked me whether it would work. When I said yes, he told me it wouldn't because of a default-setting on a check box buried deep within the admin console of one of the components of said scenario.
Is it just me who can't be bothered with all this in an interview?
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